The Importance of Friends

The Importance of Friends.

    The world today is filled with many stressful things. Whether we are down on are luck, misunderstood, and simply not understood frustration seems to be everywhere in life no matter how good you try to be as you go through it. Then, how on earth are we supposed to combat this kind of life changing stress? The answer, my clever reader is simple. Friends. People who share the same kind of problems that you do, and can be interesting in a conversation. People who will a least try to understand you feelings and comfort you. People who will make you laugh and that you can make laugh in return.

Sometimes it’s easy to underestimate the importance of friends.  You think it’s your family that is who you really rely on, and in most cases it’s true. But sometimes friends can be just important in my opinion. You choose who your friends are, you don’t choose your family.  There are so many things that you can’t talk about with your parents that you can talk about with your friends, are sometimes that’s inconvenient but most of the time it is really rewarding. Friends can really be important if you let them be.

Also, friends can provide you with a good time. Doing things on your own is only fun for so long. Playing videogames with a friend is a far more rewarding time if you have a fun person to do it with, and not just the idiots on Xbox LIVE. They aren’t your real friends, just people who share the same interests as you but don’t actually know you.  They might laugh, but they probably will not be inclined to be nice or comical with you. You need people who share an actual connection to you, and can laugh alongside you not at you as a stranger.

Friends can also help you emotionally in the other sense, helping you cope with some sort of wrong that was done to you.  If your having a bad day, who else would you want to talk to but your good pal? A good pal who can cheer you up, or at lease off some good advice that can help you get out of the slump that you are in.

I say these things not because I think I am the only one who thinks them, but because I believe it is essential to remind ourselves that we are not alone, and that we have friends that will have or back when the going gets rough of laugh with us when the going isn’t so bad.